A special guest post by #BYDN summer intern, Veronika Kindred The college application process is full of a lot of false promises. Promises that, in…
J. Kelly HoeyAugust 6, 2019
Wow. Wow. Oh, WOW. There are days I open my email inbox and want to cry, for the right reasons. Days when I receive #BYDN…
J. Kelly HoeyJune 4, 2018
In the third of my ongoing series of mentor stories, I shared how novelist Aidan Donnelley-Rowley nurtured my book writing ambition and asked: Tell me…
J. Kelly HoeyMay 21, 2018
Ah, the New Year. The time of year we gaze at an endless stream of Instagram posts of “this year, I will…” encouraging (or bloody…
J. Kelly HoeyJanuary 11, 2018
I found my first apartment in New York City on Craig’s List. I’d been living in the Big Apple since 1998. My initial move from…
J. Kelly HoeyNovember 20, 2017
Sexual Harassment. Add my name to the list of women who have experienced this in the workplace. No surprise really, except perhaps for those who…
J. Kelly HoeyOctober 11, 2017
24 months later, the next career adventure begins…. A new year and the start of a new career journey: published author. My first book is…
J. Kelly HoeyJanuary 3, 2017
A number of years ago Elena Rossini asked me to write a mother’s day blog for her website “No Country For Young Women”. Awkward! By…
J. Kelly HoeyMay 4, 2016